God/ and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life/ I give Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form. - Page 113
Stead of pottage and puddings and custards and pies, Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies : We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon; If it was not for pumpkins we should be undone. - Page 10
The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. - Page 51
European species which infests many different plants, and it is spread throughout our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. - Page 1
His arrival in this country gave rise lo the Foreign Mission School, of which he was a worthy member. He was once an Idolater, and was designed for a Pagan Priest; but by the grace of God, and by .the prayers and instructions of pious friends, he became a Christian. - Page 112
Who shall estimate the effect of those latent forces enfolded in the spirit of a new-born child, — forces that may date back centuries and find their origin in the life, and thought, and deeds of remote ancestors, — forces, the germs of which, enveloped in the awful mystery of life, have been transmitted silently from generation to generation, and never perish... - Page 102
Pilgrims to the valley of the Missouri. He wandered on his errands of benevolence from village to village and from city to city, pleading now with the patriot for a country growing up to an immensity of power, and now with the Christian for a world lying in wickedness. He explored in person the desolations of the West, and in person he stirred up to enterprise and effort the churches of the East. He lived for India and Owhyhee (Hawaii), and died in the service of Africa. - Page 130
HANDBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF WEYMOUTH AND THE ISLAND OF PORTLAND, with Notes on the Natural History of the Coast and Neighbourhood. - Page 100
... thought, and deeds of remote ancestors, — forces, the germs of which, enveloped in the awful mystery of life, have been transmitted silently from generation to generation, and never perish ! All-cherishing Nature, provident and unforgetting, gathers up all these fragments, that nothing may be lost, but that all may ultimately reappear in new combinations. Each new life is thus " the heir of all the ages," the possessor of qualities which only the events of life can unfold. - Page 102
I trust & beleive shall through the electing love of God & the Redeeming Grace of Christ, my only Lord & Saviour be most welcome & happy to mee. I Do make constitute & Declare this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following : Revokeing & hereby makeing voyd all former & other will & wills by me at any time made ; And first of all my will is that my body be decently buryed (if God permit) by the care of my Executors hereafter named. - Page 116
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